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Former NorCal resident now residing in Madison,Wisconsin. I race cross, but I'm named after a velodrome. Support your local bike shop, NorCal race promoters, and go learn to race on a track.
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I’d like to think our inspirational Natz stories are making the NorCal riders climb to higher and higher heights, but really the NorCal contingen is just kicking ass. Performances so fare have been strong… 1st Men 13-14 Road Race – Robbie Farrens 1st Men 13-14 Time Trial – Jack Maddux 2nd Men 13-14 Time...

Editor: James Mattis is a long time NorCal racer having been part of such seminal programs as Chris Horner’s Webcor year, and the current amateur powerhouse California-Giant Strawberries. Mattis holds down a full time Silicon Valley job while riding at the highest level. Below is the story of his 2008 road race victory in...

Ed. Note: In 2004 Webcor was still a regional NorCal team with a few promising riders. Karen Brems (1994 World TT Champion) saw a familiar spark in Christine Thorburn and helped prepare her for the 2004 Time Trial. T-Mobile was the dominant player in women’s cycling at the time and they fully expected to...

Elite men and women cyclists will be lining up in Augusta Georgia to battle it out for various US Championship titles this week. In order to get our local folks psyched up to race and watch so we will interview as many champs produced in NorCal as we can get our hands on. ...

I’m hoping Hernando pipes with some of his bike race poetry on the Nevada City Classic since he’s been popping up in Facebook pictures from the race all day. Summer finally arrived just in time to punish the faithful who were willing to trek up to the Sierra’s in a field that was...

The Pesky podium photo, which doubles for the District Championship, kinda sums up the NorCal men’s scene right now. Cal Giant on top, flanked by two Marc Pro-Strava fellas, with Yahoo oddly awkwardly standing to the side… and then there is a Webcor presence hanging in the background. Jesse Moore took his second District...

Editors Note: This is a new feature written by guest writer Cat3 Bloggity covering action in the Cat3 world. He thinks nobody cares about his world, but i disagree, so I’m leaving out his tag line of …. “Races that nobody cares about and results that don’t matter.” He’s like an amateur Big...

District Championships have move to one of the bay area’s best course and one of the few road races on the Peninsula, the Pescadero Coastal Classic. In order to try and bring out the big names Alto Velo increased the women’s purse to almost $2000. The men still are competing for a measly $600...

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